Due to the rapid development of information technology, the demand for data storage is gradually increasing. People urgently need a storage technology with large capacity, high speed, and low energy consumption to alleviate the storage pressure brought by current data growth. Collinear holographic data storage system has the advantages of high storage density, system stability, simple structure, and miniaturization, which becomes a research hotspot for the new generation of storage technology. Among them, holographic storage materials are the key to improve the performance of holographic storage technology, and the lifespan of storage materials determines the security, integrity, and accessibility of data. However, traditional recording pattern is sensitive to the recording position due to strict bragg condition. It is difficult to accurately locate the recording position when the material is put back in the system after aging experiment. We design a positioning map to help quick locating. The displacement selectivity of the positioning map is poor, which is easy to find in a large range, and the positioning map pattern can be exposed for a long time without disappearing. The polymethyl methacrylate (PQ/PMMA) photopolymer materials doped with phenanthraquinone was tested on the collinear holographic data storage system. The low bit error rate of the material reading data page proved that the design scheme was feasible, and provided a basis for the follow-up study of material life.
Photopolymers are special polymeric materials that can be irradiated with light to form polymer structures. It is widely used in the fields of 3D printing, anti-counterfeiting and information storage. In today's relatively mature holographic storage technology, high-density volume holographic data storage requires storage materials with a high response rate, high effective storage density and optical transparency, and high signal-to-noise ratio, etc. For this reason, storage materials have been studied in various fields. Phenanthrenequinone (PQ)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) materials are a choice for holographic storage. By modifying the polymer substrate of the lamellar PQ/PMMA holographic polymeric material, it is possible to reduce the generation of bubbles during the preparation of the material to increase the usable area of the material, and at the same time, it is also possible to improve the photoreceptor sensitivity to a certain extent, to increase the read/write speed of the material and to analyze the causes of the phenomenon using the first nature principle calculations.
Polarization holography is a newly researched field, that has gained traction with the development of tensor theory. It primarily focuses on the interaction between polarization waves and photosensitive materials. The extraordinary capabilities in modulating the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light have resulted in several new applications, such as holographic data storage technology, polarization multiplexing, vector or vortex beams, and optical functional devices. In this paper, fundamental research on polarization holography with linear polarized light, a component of the theory of polarization holography, has been reviewed. Primarily, the effect of various polarization changes on the linear and nonlinear polarization characteristics of reconstructed light wave under continuous exposure and during holographic recording and reconstruction have been focused upon. The polarization modulation realized using these polarization characteristics exhibits unusual functionalities, rendering polarization holography as an attractive research topic in many fields of applications.
In the field of holographic storage, poly (methyl methacrylate) (PQ/PMMA) photopolymer doped with phenanthraquinone has the characteristics of controllable material thickness, polarization sensitivity, and simple manufacturing process, demonstrating good research value and application prospects. This paper prepared PQ/PMMA materials with thicknesses of 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 mm, and analyzed the holographic characteristics of PQ/PMMA materials with different thicknesses, such as diffraction efficiency, photosensitivity, refractive index modulation, etc. By comparing the holographic performance parameters of materials with different thicknesses, it was found that as the thickness increases, the saturation diffraction efficiency shows a trend of first increasing and then decreasing. The 3.0 mm thick PQ/PMMA material has higher saturation diffraction efficiency and photosensitivity, providing a basis for optimizing material preparation parameters.
Volume holographic storage technology expands two-dimensional storage to multi-dimensional high-density storage, which can realize the advantages of large data storage capacity and fast data transmission speed. For holographic storage, material selection is very important. Photoinduced polymers are considered as one of the most promising holographic storage materials due to their high resolution, real-time recording and rapid preparation. Among them, phenquinone doped polymethyl methacrylate (PQ/PMMA) photoinduced polymer has negligible shrinkage rate, sensitivity to light polarization, anisotropy and other properties, and can be preserved for a long time, which is a good choice for holographic storage materials. However, due to the low solubility of PQ in methyl methacrylate (MMA), the diffraction efficiency and sensitivity of the material are still limited, which cannot meet the requirements of high speed writing of holographic stored data. In this paper, vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) monomer was introduced into PQ/PMMA photoinduced polymer system. Because PQ has better solubility in NVP, doping NVP monomer into the original system can increase the concentration of PQ from 1.0wt% to 1.2wt %. Compared with the basic PQ/PMMA materials with 1.0wt% PQ, the photosensitivity of the NVP-PQ/PMMA material are increased by 2 times (from 0.35 cm/J to 0.70 cm/J), and the diffraction efficiency are increased by 20%(from 57% to 77%). Finally, by using NVP-PQ/PMMA materials in collinear holography systems, holographic data storage can be achieved faster and with lower bit error rate than basic materials. In conclusion, the introduction of vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) monomer into PQ/PMMA photoinduced polymer system effectively improves the holographic properties of the material and has the potential to be an excellent holographic storage material.
Photopolymers are considered to be the most potential holographic storage materials due to their advantages of high resolution, real-time recording and low-cost preparation. Thereinto, Phenanthraquinone-doped polymethyl methacrylate (PQ/PMMA) photopolymers have excellent properties such as easy to prepare, controllable thickness, negligible photoinduced volume shrinkage, and long life-time for holographic data storage. Nevertheless, the current holographic properties such as diffraction efficiency and photosensitivity of PQ/PMMA photopolymers cannot meet the requirements of the information writing-speed. It is well known that the holographic properties of materials can be improved by optimizing preparation conditions and doping nanoparticles. The concentration of PQ can increased to 1.0 wt.% using 60 °C as the prepolymerization temperature in our previous report. Herein, via introducing a new monomer pentaerythritol-tetrakis-3-mercaptopropionate (PETMP) into PQ/PMMA, the photosensitizer concentration of PQ could be increased to 2.0 wt.% compared with PQ/PMMA. And under the same production process conditions, both of the photosensitivity and diffraction efficiency of PETMP-PQ/PMMA increased ~20 times (from ∼0.27 cm/J to ∼5.61 cm/J) and more than 25% (from ~50% to ∼75%). Finally, by the use of the PETMP−PMMA/PQ in a collinear holography system, it appeared to be promising for a fast but low bit error rate(BER) in holographic information storage. The current study shows that, PETMP-PQ/PMMA material has the excellent potential for holographic data storage. Keywords: Photopolymer, PQ concentration, photosensitivity, co-monomer
Phenanthraquinone-doped polymethyl methacrylate (PQ/PMMA) photopolymers with excellent characteristics of simplicity for manufacture, negligible photo-induced volume shrinkage, low cost, and high resolution for holographic data storage. In this paper, we explored the phenomenon of different PQ concentrations of PQ/PMMA photopolymers on collinear holography system. By designing a set of control experiments with different PQ doping ratios of 0.5%, 0.7%, 0.9%, 1% and 1.1% (1% means the ratio of monomer, thermal-initiator and photo-initiator are Methyl methacrylate:2,2'- Azobis(2-methylpropionitrile): PQ=100:1:1). And the Bit Error Rate (BER) of the reconstructed image using different PQ/PMMA photopolymers were measured, and we found that, at the value of the BER of 0.05, the material of 1% PQ/PMMA can last a longer time than other different PQ concentrations from 0.5% to 0.9% of PQ/PMMA at a recording beam intensity exposure. The 1.1% PQ/PMMA and the 1% PQ/PMMA can achieve the BER of 0.05 at the same time, but the 1.1% PQ/PMMA only last half time of the 1% PQ/PMMA. Furthermore, the diffraction efficiency has an obvious increase with the increase of the PQ concentrations from 0.5% to 1.0% of PQ/PMMA (from 10% to 60%), while it tends to decrease as the PQ concentration continues to increase to 1.1% due to the poor solubility. In summary, from the BER and holographic grating diffraction efficiency result, we got the optimal concentration of PQ in the PQ/PMMA photopolymer is 1%, and the current study is very meaningful for the use of PQ/PMMA in collinear holography data storage.
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